A little while ago there appeared some new smoked dial options added to the COD 11.59 family. Now we have a new complication – the combination of a flying tourbillon with a flyback chronograph in a skeletonised dial form. Audemars… Read More ›
This may be the year of the Luminor for Officine Panerai this year, but that does not mean that they have abandoned new releases from their other collection families. At the recent Watches & Wonders Shanghai they launched a new… Read More ›
Green has not been a colour alien to Piaget in recent years. In fact there was a green Polo S released last year in a limited edition, but here we are in 2020 and green watches are a ‘thing’, so… Read More ›
To mark thirty years since the brand’s modern rebirth, A. Lange & Söhne has launched three special watches in its proprietary ‘Honeygold’ in honour of Ferdinand Adoph Lange. They are the 1815 Thin Honeygold, the 1815 Rattrapante Honeygold, and the… Read More ›
No, the list of green watches for 2020 is not yet over. You may recall Hublot’s very limited (twenty pieces) bright green offering called the Big Bang MP-11 SAXEM. This Hublot-trademarked term stands for Sapphire Aluminium oXide and rare Earth… Read More ›
Earthly confines have never held back the making of pocket or wristwatches. This inspiration has come both in the form of complications and of design/ aesthetics, whether this be planetary movements, location of celestial objects, sidereal time, depictions of the… Read More ›
The horological tour de force that was Gérald Genta (1931 – 2011) was responsible for some of the most influential and significant watch designs produced in the modern history of wristwatches. That some of them, and variants based on them,… Read More ›
Last year Svend Andersen launched a new collection called ‘Art & Culture’ and with it, a limited edition (twelve pieces) launch model called ‘Vita Vinum’ (‘life wine’ in Latin). It was one of the six finalists in the GPHG 2019… Read More ›
Do things come in threes? Humans look for patterns (‘apophenia’, coined by Klaus Conrad, is the tendency to see connections and meaningful links between unrelated things). As as a creative device, the number three has long been a popular one,… Read More ›
The name of De Bethune’s Steel Wheels was inspired by the name of the Rolling Stones’ comeback album, but the newest horological Steel Wheel is not about comebacks but about the brand segueing in a very De Bethune fashion. It… Read More ›
